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TIL In 1994 the UK, USA and the Russian Federation signed the Budapest Memorandum where by Ukraine gave up the the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world in exchange for security assurances from those three countries.

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Y76bG TIL in 1943 the SAS successfully hijacked a train in Italy to libertate inmates from concentration behind enemy lines.
ANJLg TIL that the last space shuttle flight was in 2011 by the orbital Atlantis. The NASA program lasted 30 years with 135 flights.
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j6Rv TIL that when a fish is caught and processed, most countries only utilize about 30% of it. The rest gets thrown away. Iceland, with it’s 96% utilization, is an exception.